Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Libya and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Mission of Burma to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
The Motions,
Pussy Galore,
Icehouse,
Whodini,
Make Up,
The Invisible,
Circle Jerks,
Suicide,
John Foxx,
Index,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Section 25,
The United States of America,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
New Order,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Joensuu 1685,
Boz Scaggs,
Vainqueur,
Spandau Ballet,
The Sonics,
Robert Görl,
Cymande,
Slave,
Los Fastidios,
Rites of Spring,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Banda Bassotti,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deepchord,
OOIOO,
Ornette Coleman,
Bootsy Collins,
The Raincoats,
Tommy Roe,
Sarah Menescal,
Frankie Knuckles,
David Axelrod,
The Victims,
Ken Boothe,
Subhumans,
Malaria!,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
T. Rex,
Cluster,
Magazine,
Organ,
Blancmange,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pylon,
The Smoke,
The Shadows of Knight,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.